From Nova Scotia, Melbourne Hardwick settled in Boston, Massachusetts.

The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant
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Melbourne Havelock Hardwick
1857-1916

Melbourne Havelock Hardwick — a painter specializing in landscapes, figures, marines, genre, farms, and interiors in oil and watercolor — was born on September 29, 1857 in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada and died on December 25, 1916 in Waverly, MA. He studied painting in Boston and Europe and was a pupil of Triscott, Luyton, and Blummers. He resided in Boston and Belmont, MA with listed addresses of 12 West Street in Boston from 1891 to 1905 and 110 Tremont Street in Boston from 1906 to 1909.

Hardwick was a member of the Boston Art Club; the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters; the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; and the Salmagundi Club (1907) in New York City. He exhibited with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the National Academy of Design in New York City; and annually with the Boston Art Club from 1891 to 1909.

Hardwick's work is represented in the collections of the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA ,"Salt Marsh"; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, "Mid-Summer"; and the Cigna Museum and Art Collection in Philadelphia, PA, "Ebb Tide, Cape Ann," c. 1914 and "Summer Landscape,"c.1914.

References: Who Was Who in American Art, vol. I, page 262; Davenport's Art Reference 2001/2002, page 847; Mantle Fielding, 1986, page 374; Dealer's Choice Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters... page 590; Boston Art Club Exhibition Record 1873-1909, pages 201-203; Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; Whistler House Museum of Art files.